Details are sketchy, but this is all there is right now:
Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.
Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six.
Fourteen contractors were traveling across the Danziger Bridge under police escort when they came under fire, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers.
Another day in the disaster zone.
Steve
Sounds like Iraq.
derek
First of all,
Steve: STFU. You don’t even know what you’re talking about, you little media whore.
Secondly, I guess we can blame Bush for the shootings. I mean, they were probably black, right?
bains
Where are you jobiuspublius, we dont know who to hate…
derek
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Steve
moonbat, er I mean derek: Huh? Can you be any more incoherent?
cfw
Does not look true to me. Police are that accurate? Shooting pistols? The NOLA police? From what distance?
From fifty feet away, with looters exposed and not moving (like in a shooting range), I might believe they could kill “five or six” without taking any casualties. Beyond that distance, with the looters moving and diving for cover, who beleives the NOLA police are that good? Great shooting for the special forces. Seems unbelievable for a low morale NOLA police force. Look like a planted story, meant to deter looters.
goonie bird
And as they indicated in florida after hurricane andrew was plain YOU LOOT I SHOOT nuff said